Killing Joke have released a stream of their brand new single ‘I Am The Virus’, the first taste of their upcoming new record ‘Pylon’. The album drops October 23rd via Spinefarm Records, and you can watch the lyric video for ‘I Am The Virus’ below:

To celebrate their 35th anniversary as a band, Killing Joke have released a music video to accompany their track, ‘Corporate Elect’, taken from last year’s full-length, ‘MMXIII’. You can stream and watch the video below:

Note: As only three members of the site were able to attend the festival weekend, we were sadly unable to cover every band performing throughout the day.

Extended to a full three-day weekend with just the Saturn stage not used on the Friday, the first day of musical entertainment at this year’s Sonisphere brings a bloody big attraction: The Big 4. With their first ever appearance over in the UK, the festival sure has a pretty impressive exclusive amongst the rest of the country’s festivals, and for all thrash metal fans this surely the makings of a wet dream come true.

Hosted at the grounds of Knebworth, we got involved with the Sonisphere festivities now that the event has been extended to a three-day weekend with all of its stages. The first night of bands treated us witht the first ever UK appearance of The Big 4, along with a host of many other brilliant acts. Though we weren’t allowed photo access to the Apollo and Saturn stages to take shots of the big guns, our snappy photographer did manage to catch all the other great action across the arena.

The Mars Volta are to perform their one and only UK show of 2011 at this year’s Sonisphere Festival in Knebworth. Alongside them, Opeth, Killing Joke, Four Year Strong, The Black Dahlia Murder, Black Tide, Watain, Firewind, Rise To Remain, Alestorm, Six Hour Sundown and The Treatment have also joined the line-up.

For more information regarding the festival weekend, please visit the official website.